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Example sentences of "and [prep] [adj] years [pers pn] [vb past] " in BNC.

No	Sentence
1	His name was Dr Georges Flandrin and for five years he had been treating the Shah for cancer .
2	Queen Victoria always needed the support of a dedicated man and for nineteen years she found it in Brown .
3	I read somewhere that this slenderness was to allow bream freedom of movement between stems of marginal growth such as reeds , and for many years I accepted this as fact .
4	The shop 's three glass doors and old-fashioned set of windows were all adorned with window boxes and hanging baskets and for several years it won a Bath Festival award for the best floral shop facade in the City .
5	They chose a spot by a river , on the side of a mountain , they called three hundred workmen together , and for three years they toiled at building the city .
6	He very quickly became an invaluable member of the organisation and after two years I made him manager .
7	A year later he switched to Labour , and within six years he had won a seat on Hounslow borough council .
8	From then on his rise was rapid and within three years he had become the supreme influence at Edward 's court .
9	Dr McClure began school teaching in 1981 and within three years she became deputy headmistress at Kingswood School , Bath .
10	In 1850 therefore the deer were officially banished , and in five years they had all been killed off .
11	As Cynthia says : ‘ We found Dave entertaining children at Chessington World of Adventures , and in 25 years I had never met anyone who got on more naturally with children . ’
12	A former schoolteacher and the wife of a Magee College lecturer , she was of pronounced left-wing sympathies and in later years she became Bernadette Devlin 's secretary in London .
13	Here John learned to appreciate the material things in life and in later years he allowed journalists to make the mistake of attributing John George 's wealth and position to him at this time .